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Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless solid. It is an obsolete insecticide, now prohibited in the western world, but only after many thousands of tonnes had been produced and used.
Este pesticida fue sintetizado por primera vez en 1951, un año más tarde la sustancia fue patentada y finalmente su introducción comercial fue en 1958 en Estados Unidos por Allied Chemical bajo la denominación comercial de Kepone® y GC-1189.
14 de sept. de 2021 · Kepone is a toxic insecticide that a chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia dumped into the James River from 1966 to 1975. The disaster caused environmental and health problems, fishing bans, and lawsuits, but also led to improved environmental awareness.
7 de dic. de 2016 · Learn about the history and impact of the Kepone disaster, a major environmental crisis in Virginia in the 1970s. Find out how Kepone poisoned workers, contaminated the James River, and sparked a landmark lawsuit.
Kepone. Kepone es una banda estadounidense de indie rock con sede en Richmond, Virginia. Formada en 1991, el nombre de la banda se derivó de la crisis de Kepone que ocurrió en el área de Richmond en la década de 1970 1 .1 Originalmente formada como un proyecto paralelo de Michael Bishop de Gwar, 2 la formación original de la banda también ...
21 de dic. de 2021 · Kepone (chlordecone) is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals. Cancer Studies in Experimental Animals Dietary administration of chlordecone caused liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) in rats and mice of both sexes.
Chlordecone (CD; Kepone™) is a carcinogenic organochlorine insecticide with neurological, reproductive, and developmental toxicity that was widely used in the French West Indies (FWI) from 1973 to 1993 to fight banana weevils.
